In preparation for my first book, Renewable Energy–Facts and Fantasies, I interviewed Dr. V. Ramanathan at the Scripps Institute in San Diego. “Ram (pronounced “Rahm”), as he’s affectionately known, had been working on the science behind climate change since the …
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The car/boat shown here isn’t a bad investment for those in one of America’s areas prone to “sunny day flooding,” a term that is being used with increasing frequency as the oceans expand via rising temperatures, and the ice sheets in places …
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Senior Energy Analyst Glenn Doty writes: Sadly, a perfectly legitimate response to this (see larger graph below) is curling into a fetal position and sobbing for a while…
A heat wave doesn’t prove the theory of anthropogenic global warming, just like an ignorant jackass with a snowball on the U.S. Senate floor doesn’t disprove it.
As we’ve discussed, there are two fundamental strategies in dealing with climate change: mitigation (reducing greenhouse gas emissions that are causing the problem), and adaptation (dealing with rising temperatures and their effects).
Hard to believe as it may be, the United States used to have Energy Secretaries who knew something about energy. Here’s an article that describes talks given by nuclear physicist Dr. Ernest Moniz (Energy Sec. 2012 – 2016) and climate …
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Here’s an article that discusses Shell Oil’s “disinviting” a climate scientist from a speaking engagement. This is more interesting than it appears, IMO. It’s unclear if the speaker would have added constructive advice to the Shell exec team, but it’s abundantly …
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Question: The five hottest summers in Europe’s 600-year history of record keeping have all occurred in the last 20 years. What is the probability that this is a random occurrence, and thus that the theory of AGW (anthropogenic global warming) …
Here’s an article that discusses the projected price tag of seawalls required to protect U.S. cities by 2040, pegging the cost at $416 billion. Seawalls are examples of “adaptation,” i.e., making changes in the way we live so as to …
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Apparently, I’m not the only one foretelling what’s going to happen when climate change starts to have increasingly heavy impact on human civilization. In particular, while the hoards of poor people are going to face unprecedented levels of suffering, the …
